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series5 books2012
Adventure, adventurous and tense in tone, about quests, set in ancient world and mediterranean.
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TheseusSeries
series2 books1958
completed
Mythic fantasy, about coming of age.
“Renault wrote a sequel, The Bull from the Sea, in 1962.”
from the catalogue
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Warrior HeroesSeries
series6 books2014
Time travel.
Start with The Knight's Enemies →
AirmanNovel
Eoin Colferstandalone novel2008
About coming of age and revenge, set in our world and 19th century.
Earth GiantNovel
Edison Marshallstandalone novel1960
Historical fantasy and mythic fantasy.
“At the age of five, Heracles crushed in his chubby fists the spade-shaped heads of two messengers of death that had invaded his bed of sheepskins.”
from the catalogue
Tolkien's legendariumUniverse
universe163 books1923
Fantasy, set in secondary world.
“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →
includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Fall of Gondolin, The History of Middle Earth